Reagan Said Government Was The Problem, Not The Answer; Bush Has Made Reagan's Fantasy Come True

[Ian David]

By Joe Rothstein
Editor, USPolitics.einnews.com

March 9, 2007

A friend of mine works as a contractor-employee for a major federal agency in Washington. Shortly after the federal government's response to Katrina's devastation became a national scandal she was summoned to be part of an ad hoc disaster working group.

At the first meeting she suggested that various agencies combine their applications so that the victims could fill out a single form requesting aid, rather than having to duplicate that effort multiple times in scattered locations throughout the gulf region.

The group's leader, an assistant cabinet secretary, looked at her as if she was deranged. "You don't get it, do you?" he said. "We're not here to make it easier for people to take advantage of government programs. That just encourages people to lean on government. We want them to find private sector solutions."

Buried in that exchange is one of the keys to understanding why the Bush-managed federal government is such a failure.

The keepers of this White House are anti-government.

And because they are anti-government today's headlines are all about the removal of U.S. attorneys for spurious reasons, the colossal mismanagement of Walter Reed and other veterans' facilities, widespread abuse in government contracting-----and, for good measure, let's throw in the daily agony of a mismanaged Iraq war.

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